Example sentences of "[prep] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Walker retired two years ago after working for the South Tees Health authority for 23 years . |
| 2 | LYNETTE L'HOMME One month after working for the company as a temp , Lynette L'Homme joined on a permanent basis in June and is now employed as a Purchasing Ledger Clarkess . |
| 3 | CAROL McDONALD After working for the Company as a Temporary Secretary for four months , Carol McDonald was appointed to the position of Clerkess in the Axminster and Wilton Yarn Preparation Office . |
| 4 | Melanie Henwood joined the King 's Fund Institute as a Fellow in Health Policy Analysis in July 1989 after working at the Family Policy Studies Centre since 1983 . |
| 5 | Farr-Jones dismisses the idea that his championing of IMG 's cause has compromised him , given that his brother , Peter , has joined the sporting company after working in the banking sector for many years . |
| 6 | He joined ICI in 1984 after working in the retailing , packaging and Banking Industries , in his spare time , he 's a keen Jazz musician and photographer . |
| 7 | Dealers , after working in the business for a month , could pinpoint the good ones . |
| 8 | Have you ever come out in a rash after working in the garden , and thought it might have been caused by a plant you were handling ? |
| 9 | After working in the prison service , he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent . |
| 10 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 11 | The arrest in October 1990 of Klaus Kuron , a senior West German intelligence officer accused of working for the East German State Security Service ( Stasi ) [ see p. 37828 ] , resulted in the arrests of many others accused of spying [ see p. 37828 ] . |
| 12 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 13 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 14 | Corpus Christi College employed him too , from 1605 to 1607 , in 1609 , and from 1615 to 1616 ; in his third period of working for the college he was assisted by a pupil , Henry Wilcocke . |
| 15 | In 1929 Nizan 's acquiescence to party discipline did not prevent him from exploring the possibility of working for the party at the edge of the class divide . |
| 16 | To my mind this is an untidy way of working for the shooting man does n't make the effort to dig his ferrets out . |
| 17 | About the same time , Brailsford , who had toyed with the idea of working for the NCF , judged it more harshly : ‘ a blind alley which won t bring us even infinitesimally nearer to peace . ’ |
| 18 | However , it is important to consider the interaction of events because instances of disturbance will have greater or lesser effects on cost depending on the actual timing and the method of working of the contractor . |
| 19 | Not all farm workers have been affected equally by the new technology and certain aspects of working on the land have remained almost untouched by it . |
| 20 | From this simple , yet significant , starting-point many of the distinctive features of working on the land follow . |
| 21 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 22 | I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board . |
| 23 | The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court . |
| 24 | No they 've sort of working on the farm |
| 25 | M. B. It 's all very well this business of collegiate training — you 've have n't got the knowledge of working on the beat . |
| 26 | Ken said that many performers ought to pay managements for the privilege of working on the stage . |
| 27 | erm what this gives us an opportunity to do is to further exploit and promote erm the English , or the sort of British holiday , and this is why we are sort of working on the theme ‘ Britain 's great ’ , because a lot of people have yet to discover various parts of Britain and there are all sorts of holidays , you know , across Britain , from Land 's End to County Antrim , from Loch Ness to London Town . |
| 28 | Was this a way of working on the quality of the strings ? |
| 29 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 30 | It is highly effective , highly professional and highly regarded and in no way would its organisational change mean that it was any less committed to or capable of working on the types of renewable energy mentioned by the hon. Gentleman from tidal to wave power . |